Marx and the Aesthetic

The aim of this book is twofold: on the one hand, to analyse the role of the
aesthetic in the writings of Marx and, on the other, to examine works of art and
literature which are based on, or have been directly inspired by Marx’s writings
(and not just Marxism in the broadest sense). At the core of this book, then, is
an attempt to think the immanent relation between the aesthetic and emancipatory
conceptions of politics in times of cultural and economic globalisation.

kollektive gestalten

Keywords: theory of design, theory of architecture, the
aesthetico-political

The book series kollektive gestalten (Turia+Kant-Verlag, Wien) is
dedicated to the theory of design and architecture. It aims to interpret
spatial, visual, virtual and communicative architectures as shapes of collective
practices (as kollektive Gestalten) and also to contribute to the
formation of collectives (dazu beizutragen. kollektive zu gestalten) to
counter the erosion of solidarity in contemporary neoliberal societies.

Co-editor: Andreas Rumpfhuber (Expanded Design/Theoriesalon, Vienna)

Aesthetics of Crisis—Crisis of Aesthetics

The project Aesthetics of Crisis—Crisis of Aesthetics is a
mid-term research project that involves public lecture series, book projects and
various forms of aesthetic and social research into the field of the visibility
of crisis and the forms of social and aesthetic experiments which people develop
to counter its most dramatic consequences. It focuses on questions of aesthetic
ideology (the critique of aesthetic autonomy) just as much as on problems of
aesthetic representation in times of economic abstraction. Last but not least,
it poses the question: How can one argue for normative aesthetics in an
increasingly fragmented and disrupted world?

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